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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:55:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Why AI detectors still get student writing wrong</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Morning announcements are school culture's daily ritual. What makes announcement blocks work, what kills them and how to fix yours.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What the substitute shortage does to school culture</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[About 14 million teacher absences went unfilled. What the substitute shortage does to coverage, planning time, equity and daily school culture.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Late work policy splits faculties between deadlines as standards and grades as pure measurement. What changed since 2020 and what districts now adopt.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Teacher social media accounts and classroom boundaries</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teacher TikTok met district policy: what rules govern teacher social media, where boundaries get tested and what a workable policy looks like.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The slow disappearance of the school assembly</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[School assemblies are quietly vanishing under time pressure and staffing shortages. What schools lose, and how some keep the ritual alive.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Chronic absenteeism fell from 31 percent in 2021-22 but stays far above pre-pandemic norms. The data, the causes and what works.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Parent messaging expectations and the teacher&apos;s evening</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Parent messaging apps made teachers reachable at 9 p.m. What changed, what district policies say, and what actually protects a teacher's evening.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Where four-day school weeks are spreading, and why</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Teacher morale surveys: what they actually measure</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teacher morale surveys measure burnout, stress and satisfaction differently: what Gallup, RAND, Pew and NCES numbers really say about teacher morale.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Marta Kowalczyk</dc:creator>
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      <title>Phone bans in schools: what the first-year data shows</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[First-year data on school phone bans: calmer classrooms, enforcement costs and what 22 states' bell-to-bell laws actually changed since 2024.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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